Gatehouse of Fleet, Birtwhistle Mills View showing remains of mills
SC 634747
Description Gatehouse of Fleet, Birtwhistle Mills View showing remains of mills
Date 31/10/1964
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 634747
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Birtwhistle Mills, Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries & Galloway The mills on this site were founded in about 1785 by Birtwhistle & Co, a Yorkshire firm, to use Arkwright's patents for cotton spinning. The firm built two mills on the banks of the Water of Fleet, and a third was added later by a Mr McWilliam. This shows the roofless, ivy-clad ruin of the lower Birtwhistle mill, from the south-east. Despite appearances, the walls of this building were fairly intact. The large mid-breast waterwheel which drove the mill was on the left gable. These mills were out of production by 1850, when they were reconstructed as a bobbin mill by William & Thomas Helme of Dalbeattie. The bobbins were used in textile mills for a variety of purposes. The Gatehouse of Fleet mill was ruinous by 1964, but the lower mill was rebuilt as the 'Mill on the Fleet' in the 1980s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/64/2/22
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